They do work pretty well. I run a pair of 2000 watt portables instead, for a few reasons. Each only weighs a bit under 50 pounds. Those big 3000 watt Honda and Honda-knockoffs are like 140 pounds. A real bitch to load and unload and move. The pair of 2000s costs close to the same but makes more powe...

You want a trailer. You don’t want your waste water riding with you in the rig on the way out. Trailers are great for a million reasons for BRC trips. They give you space for bulky stuff - that will be super dirty on the way home - without filling up the interior of your camper/motorhome. Another of...

Jackass speaks the gospel... Another point about using smaller containers like 15s or 30s besides weight is damage control. If it’s more than just you and one other person, great but for the mix of people you’re talking about, there’s no shortage of horror stories about blowing all the water. I can ...

If you buy an old motorhome, the most important things are: transmission, tires, radiator and make sure the fridge works.
A portable Honda generator will use less fuel than the built-in one it has. The cost of fuel isn’t an issue, it’s that you have to carry all of it with you.

I’m all about the machinery too, but for this I’d rather be out by the tanks and hoses making sure everything is OK. You also don’t want to leave the fill hose in your RV, you’ll want to remove it and put the cap on your water tank. So you gotta go out there. All you need is a screw-on in-line garde...

I have been doing exactly this water arrangement for years... almost 20 of ‘em. It works great. I carry extra water on the trailer in food-grade barrels and I bring empty ones for my gray water, also on the trailer, so I’ve got about 100 gallons for myself and the First Mate, mostly for the shower. ...

The Portland regional, SOAK, is pretty good and not too far to hit from here. I’d warn against falling into the recently-common “I’m going to Burning Man so I NEED to join a camp” mentality. The survival guide is essential and unless the camp is made of people who are already your real friends, you’...

My MV isn’t open at all times 24/7. Almost no one’s is. You can’t just come up demanding entrance while I’m trying to work on it or whatever reason I have at the moment. The 747 guys are planning to upgrade the entrance/exit, because demand exceeded their expectations. Wtf kind of studies and regula...

If your impact runs out of oomph driving lags into playa you’ve got a very weak impact, probably a 1/4” drive thingy. If you want to crank them in by hand (???) Ratty is right, that’s called a speed wrench and they have existed for eons. You don’t have to fab your own if you haven’t got a welder or ...

You’re all proving my point. You’re arguing over whether it’s art or not, and what else to do to expand on it, etc.
One of the biggest complaints about it was the lines to get in it.
I’d say a damn lot of people thought it was cool, not many others had that problem.

You know, all this discussion about the plane is what makes it great art. Thanks, all of you, for helping make the plane one of the greatest Burning Man art pieces ever. Your work here giving it so much attention and interest helps immensely! The plane has sparked more controversy and discussion tha...

Of course, YOU’D have pulled all this off without the slightest glitch. You would have known about the unforeseen property line issue, and you’d have accurately predicted the hardness of the playa along the entire route. You wouldn’t have done what these guys did, which apparently was go home and le...

That environmental argument does nothing but make people using it lose all credibility. You can’t hang a number like that on something that has nothing but variables. “A tank of gas” isn’t a consistent number. Different engines produce different amounts of emissions. And there’s such a thing as shut...

Well that’s funny I know the guys who built the plane weren’t paid employees... but I’m talking about the plane itself not the camp. So, no one has ever gotten bogged in soft playa before? It’s happened to DPW, other private people, even cops. That’s just an excuse to call it “moop” when in fact it ...

That sounds like a clever statement but it doesn’t hold water. The plane was built by real burners, not getting paid, working hard and doing fine craftsmanship. Finer than most of you are capable of. You guys have no idea how much metal fab happened to make it work. It’s not like some rich guy waved...

These guys put in huge, never-give-up effort on their idea of what they wanted to to with their time and money. A whole lot of people and camps shell out large sums of money and effort doing what they do. Relative to my own personal budget, I shell out a ridiculous amount on my burning man stuff. Th...

How to survive Burning Man without too much trauma: Don’t do anything radically different than you usually do, particularly untested.
Don’t wear new different shoes, don’t get excessively trashed, and don’t consume anything that sounds that much like “toilet”.

To be fair, maybe it ended up as “mobile art” and not a “Mutant Vehicle”. Originally it was to be a Mutant Vehicle and was going to be licensed through the same channels as every other. I didn’t go this year when it finally had wheels and didn’t follow things that closely about it. If that’s how it ...